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mi fate la parafrasi e commento in inglese di qst poesia????grazie.....
"when I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent, which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my maker, and present
My true account, lest he, returning, chide,
'Doth God exact day_labour, light denied?
I fondly ask; but Patience, yo prenet
That murmur, soon replies: 'God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his state
Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."

The primary theme of the sonnet is the blindness of the poet. He became blind in the third period of his production. In the first line there is a metaphor, LIGHT, that stands for SIGHT and for LIFE.
Spent has two different meaning:
- used up (consumata);
- for consonance with Italian is SPENTA.
The second line remembers the first line of Dante’s Divina Commedia. Here there is a sound device: the alliteration of “D” and “W”.
With the phrase “DARK WORLD” the poet expresses the world in which he lives that is full of sins. The contrast between LIGHT and DARK underline the inferiority of the poet because of he can’t see.
The word TALENT, in the third line has two different meaning:
- For consonance with Italian (talento) it means ABILITY, GIFT;
- Literary it means COIN, connected with puritan theory and importance of work.
By analyzing this line (3), the poet want to express an important concept, that is everyone receives gift that must be exploited. By referring to the parable of three servants, the poet identify himself in the third one because God asks him why he isn’t exploited the poetic talent he has received.
The poet answers that even though he is sure to serve God, he doesn’t exploit his talent at best because he can’t see.
TALENT is a specific word connected with trade together with ACCOUNT and DAY-LABOUR (this is also a metaphor for WORK). He uses these words to suggest a transaction between God and man. ACCOUNT in this context means the total value of Milton’s life and work.
Then the poet asks the Patience (there is a personification) if God measures actual work done by people with a disability.
YOKE is a device worn by some animals by which their master can direct them, so it stands for BONDAGE. In this case this word symbolizes the complex relationship between God and Man; in fact for the puritans God is seen as a master of men whose purpose in life is to serve him. If people don’t oppose God’s directions but follows them, their yoke becomes mild and they serve him best, and so got the salvation.
The sonnet is divided into:
- an octave, which theme is the blindness and at the same time there is a sort of complain;
- a sestet which theme is the resignation.